Lima, Peru
Cusco, Peru
A steep, one-way, cobbled street. See the tourist looking up at all the steps he has to climb with his luggage.
Three Peruvian women dressed in colorful traditional clothing and holding cute lambs and a baby, standing on a sidewalk in Cusco, waiting for tourists to pay for photographing them.
Rural Peru.
Two Peruvian children shepherding a flock of sheep and llamas in a rocky, barren landscape.
Rural Peru
A Peruvian family guiding a herd of sheep and llamas along a dirt road in a mountainous, dry, rocky landscape.
Paucartambo Province, Peru
A Peruvian woman wearing traditional clothing herds sheep and pigs through a field to another location.
Rural Peru between Cusco and Manu National Park.
A small family farm in a rocky, mountainous region. The buildings are made with earthen blocks.
The main street of a small, dusty provincial town, where all the young people leave for the city as soon as they can.
Traditional clothing, including the "blanket backpack", called a manta, I think.
Paucartambo, Peru
Traditional Peruvian clothing and hats worn at a town street market. A lot of purple/mauve here!
A small local street market, selling fresh produce and household items in rural Cusco region.
The picturesque colonial Carlos Tercero bridge, built in 1775, spanning the Mapacho River in the town of Paucartambo, in the Cusco region in southern Peru.
Peru
Freshly harvested coca leaves being air-dried beside a road in Peru, which may be in preparation to extract the alkaloids for cocaine production or for traditional uses like tea, chewing, and ceremonies.
Manu National Park, Peru
A tourist van on a road trip through the dense cloud forest biome of the Cultural Zone in Manu National Park.
A tree branch is covered in moss, bromeliads and wild orchids, which are epiphytes that thrive in the moist environment of a mid-elevation cloud forest.
An Andean cock-of-the-rock (Latin: Rupicola peruvianus), with brilliant red-orange plumage, sitting in its natural habitat in the Peruvian rainforest. It is the national bird of Peru.
Peru.
Passenger boats moored along the shore of the Madre de Dios River in the Cultural Zone of Manu National Park. This was the starting point for wildlife/nature viewing trips on the Manu River in the Reserved Zone, deeper into the park. This is a place rich with biodiversity.
A group of adult neotropic cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus, a freshwater species) perched on a tree branch in an oxbow lake, with wings spread, drying their plumage.
Cocha Salvador Lake, Manu National Park, Peru.
An adult Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), endemic to South America, sunning itself on a sandbank in the Manu River in the Reserved Zone of Manu National Park.
Cocha Blanco, Manu National Park, Peru
A misty morning in Peru. Tourists on a wooden viewing platform, being paddled by guides in dugout canoes.
The spectacular Heliconia rostrata, commonly known as the hanging lobster claw, fishtail heliconia or false bird of paradise, is a herbaceous perennial plant native to Peru and Argentina.
Inca Trail, Peru
One of the many old Inkan ruins you'll find on the multi-day walking trail to Machu Picchu, shaped to blend with the natural surroundings in the Andes mountains.
